Effect of drag force on backward-facing step gas-particle turbulent flows

An improved drag force coefficient of gas-particle interaction based on the traditional Wen’s 1966 model is proposed. In this model, a two-stage continuous function is used to correct the discontinuous switch when porosity less than 0.2. Using this proposed correlation and the Wen’s 1966 model, a gas-particle kinetic energy and particle temperature model is developed to predict the hydrodynamic characteristics in backward-facing step gas-particle two-phase turbulent flows. Numerically results showed that they are in good agreement with experiment measurements and presented model are better due to a improvement of momentum transport between gas and particle phases. Particle dispersions take on the distinctively anisotropic behaviors at every directions and gas phase fluctuation velocity are about twice larger than particle phases. Particle phase has a unique transportation mechanism and completely different from the gas phase due to different density. Furthermore, the correlation values of axial–axial gas-particle are always greater than the radial–radial values at fully flow regions. The gas-particle two-phase interactions will make influence on two-phase turbulent flow behaviors.